Hot cognition is a motivated reasoning phenomenon in which a person's responses (often emotional) to stimuli are heightened. Hot cognition is a theory relative to cognitive processes and learning motivation. Hot cognition might be associated with cognitive arousal, in which a person is much more responsive to environmental factors regardless of the response's impact on learning. A learner who displays hot cognition is highly attentive and interactive with information. Sometimes the learner will respond based on emotion, without analyzing the response. Hot cognition makes it difficult for a person to "calm down" to analyze the process properly. Hot cognition is the opposite of cold cognition, which is excessively critical and over-analyzing. Hot cognition deals with feeling, desires, and emotion.[1]
The term "hot cognition" was introduced by Robert P. Abelson in 1963.[2]
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References
- ^ Kunda, Z. (1990). The case for motivated reasoning. Psychological Bulletin, 108(3), 480-498. doi [1]
- ^ Abelson, R. P., Computer simulation of "hot cognitions", in S. Tomkins & S. Mesick (Eds.), Computer simulation of personality. New York: Wiley, 1963.
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